真理、偶然性与现代性

如果将真理的绝对主义与相对主义之吊诡称作"真理的二律背反",那么近数十年来,许多哲学问题都是为了解决这个二律背反.希拉里·普特南、卡尔-奥托·阿佩尔、尤尔根·哈贝马斯似乎试图表明真理的绝对主义不必导致形而上学,而理查德·罗蒂则试图表明对真理的绝对主义的批判不必导致相对主义.通过对上述两方围绕真理问题论争之理论基础的分析,可以看到真理、偶然性与现代性之间的内在关联.     

浅析唐诗《春望》中的复义:五种英译比较

杜甫名诗《春望》五种英译文的比较研究主要以新批评派的细读法和燕卜荪的复义理论为参照,在细读和分析了诗中的词汇和语法复义的基础上进行,研究结果表明五种英译文均部分地再现了原诗作中的复义。     

城镇化过程中农民的文化意识及其转化——基于现代性的反思

城镇化是我国未来社会发展的主要样态,农民是城镇化的主体与主要受益者。城镇化过程可视为农村居民向城镇居民转变的过程,因此农民的传统文化意识直接影响着城镇化的推进。本文以现代性思想为基础,通过对农民文化意识的思考,提出城镇化过程中农民文化意识的转化方向和基于传统文化的农民文化意识转化策略,即传统文化中未来意识的发掘,传统文化中生态意识的传承,传统文化中群体意识的存续,传统经济伦理与道德意识的承接。     

Negotiating women’s social space: public debates on gender in early modern Kerala,India*

Abstract

The paper argues that the formation of modern gender identities in early‐twentieth‐century Kerala was deeply implicated in the project of shaping governable subjects who were, at one and the same time ‘free’ and already inserted into modern institutions. Because gender appeared both natural and social, both individualising and general, it seemed to be a superior form of social ordering compared to the pre‐existing order of caste. The actualisation of a superior society ordered by gender was seen to be dependent upon the shaping of the fully‐fledged individuals with strong internalities and well‐developed gendered capacities that would place them in distinct social domains of the public and domestic, as ‘free’ individuals, who, however, were bound together in a complementary relationship. While this model still remains dominant in Kerala, by the 1930s, the public/domestic divide came to be blurred with the rapid spread of disciplinary institutions. Womanhood came to be associated not with a certain domain but with a certain form of power. This legitimated the entry of Malayalee women into public life, undergirded the much‐discussed ‘Kerala Model’ of development, and still holds up the highly ambiguous sort of ‘liberation’ elite Malayalee women have experienced. It has also strongly influenced the specific shape the resistance to patriarchy has taken in Kerala in the twentieth century.     

Seoul and the time in motion: urban form and political consciousness

Abstract

This paper explores the political effects of the cognitive change in the visual environment of colonial Seoul. It asks how the new urban imagery was perceived by the Korean population. It analyzes the ways in which they experienced urban forms, techniques of advertisement and urban infrastructure such as street‐cars and trains. It argues that the engagement of people with mobility, urban symbols and spectacles in the colonial city had stimulated different ways of seeing and thinking about who they were and what they had become, a new collective identity that is neither a subject of the Chos[obreve]n dynasty nor the Japanese colonial state. This paper demonstrates that colonial Seoul represented not only the technique of Japanese colonial subjugation but also generated a new grammar for imagining new identity and difference. The urban environment of the colonial city reflects not entirely a strategy of the colonizer but a tactic of the colonized in appropriating the different meanings of new social life, which was brought by, but not exclusively under, the control of colonial space and time.     

J.B. Priestley,the ‘Modern’ and America

ABSTRACT

J.B. Priestley has often been seen as representative of a nostalgic Englishness which rejected the modern world and, in the process, embraced anti-Americanism. However, as this article suggests, Priestley had a more complicated relationship with both America and modernity than has been accepted. Focusing on the 1930s, it shows how Priestley travelled widely in the United States and came to admire the democratic and collective aspects of American culture, whilst also developing a critique of what he saw as the lack of individuality and creativity in other elements of the ‘mass' society, anticipating arguments he would develop after 1945.     

武术的意境美及其美学价值

蕴含东方和谐哲学思想的武术,把中国传统哲学的普遍和谐价值观念落实到行之有效的操作层面,不仅对于构建和谐社会有益,也是人类和谐相处的和平之桥。从神美、阴阳和谐美、静虚之美方面谈及武术的意境美及其美学价值。     

也谈古代文学研究的"回归本体"与"当下关怀"

"回归本体"和"当下关怀"的实质包涵了古代文学研究的目的和方法:"回归本体"应包括观念的回归、文本(原典)的回归和方法的回归;"当下关怀"要排除庸俗社会学的干扰,也不应媚俗。古代文学研究应该从自己民族的历史文化中为"当下"提供更多的精神食粮。     

论肖像画的诞生:一种现代性的视角

在中西方绘画史上,肖像画发展的程度截然不同,作为西方绘画主要类型的肖像画,在中国绘画史上却没有独立的位置。可以说,“肖像画的诞生”是一个现代性事件,只有足够成熟的现代化社会才能为其提供存在的普遍性条件——自主性精神。通过比较中西肖像画所植根的文化系统,可以展现肖像画作为现代性的文化表征所包含的双重性,它既显示了其所植根的那种普遍性的条件——文化现代性,同时也展示了现代性的自主化精神在艺术中的内在化——审美现代性。可以说,肖像画作为一个特殊的艺术门类,表征了普遍的现代性精神在文化和艺术中的同源共生。     

《圣经》对英美文学的影响简论

英美文学深爱《圣经》的影响,莎士比亚及海明威的作品有着很深的《圣经》情结。客观、中肯地探寻《圣经》对英美作家作品的影响,对于全面、准确地把握世界文学发展的脉络和规律,具有极其重要的理论意义和实践意义。